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<a href="food.html#OEI">OE Introduction</a></td>
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<a href="food.html#SBC">Scriftboc</a></td><td> &nbsp; <font face="arial" size="+1"><a href="food.html#CTH">Canons of Theodore</td>
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	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_87b.html#X01.03.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X01.03.02</a></a></b> If he [a monk or a deacon commits fornication and he] begets a child, he is to fast more severely, as the bishop or masspriest may judge for him.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_88b.html#X01.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X01.04.01</a></a></b> If a man without orders and not made a
	   monk commits fornication, he is to fast twelve months; if he begets a child, he is to fast four years; if he slays
	   the child, he is to fast seven years. </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.01.01</a></b> If a layman who has a wife defiles another man's wife or a
	   virgin, he is to fast one year; </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.01.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.01.02</a></b> if she has a child, let him fast three years.</p>
	   	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.02.01</a></b> He who has
intercourse with his mother or sister or
daughter is to fast 12 (years); however, let the priest observe what condition he is in.</p>


	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.05.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.05.01</a></b> Whichever man has intercourse with his female slave is to
	   fast for one year. </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_88a.html#X02.05.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X02.05.02</a></b> If she has a child, he is to free it and nonetheless is to fast
	   one year. </p>
	   	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_88b.html#X04.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X04.01.01</a></b>
	   If a small boy has been forced by a larger one into intercourse, he (is to fast) 5 nights. If he consents to it, he is to fast 15 nights.</p>
	   	   <p>
	   	   	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_88b.html#X04.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X04.02.01</a></b> If he steals or eats carrion and knows it, he is to fast 7 days. If he is 20 years old and does any such thing, he is to fast for 20 nights.
 </p>
	   	   <p>
	   	   	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_89a.html#X04.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X04.03.01</a></b> If the same one (i.e., a youth of 20) defiles himself with his hands, he is to fast 20 days.</p>
	   	   <p>
	   	   	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_89a.html#X05.01.00" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X05.01.00</a></b> VII Concerning married men or boys, when they do wicked deeds in unnatural ways.</p>
	   	   <p>
	   	   	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_89a.html#X05.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X05.04.01</a></b> If boys have intercourse between themselves, they are to be flogged.</p>
	   	   	   <p>
	   	   	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_89b.html#X07.01.00" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X05.01.00</a></b> VIIII Concerning infants who are not baptized.</p>

	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_89b.html#X07.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X07.01.01</a></b> If a child dies a heathen, his father and mother are to fast
	   three years. </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_89b.html#X07.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X07.02.01</a></b> He who murders his heathen child is to fast ten years
	   according to the judgment of the canon; some wish (it to be) six years. </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_89b.html#X07.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X07.03.01</a></b> If a pagan child is entrusted to a priest and it is unwell and
	   it dies a heathen, the priest is to be cast out from his order.  If it (the negligence) is dependent on
	   the parents the priest is to fast one year.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_91b.html#X11.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X11.04.01</a></b> Whichever man frees a pregnant slave, her child is nevertheless born a slave. </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_92b.html#X12.08.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X12.08.01</a></b> The parents of a betrothed virgin are not allowed to give her to another man unless she altogether refuses the one whom she does not wish. She may then abandon that one and choose to join a monastery if she wishes.
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	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_92b.html#X13.01.00" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X13.01.00</a></b> XV  Concerning the ages of a boy or girl, when they have authority over themselves.</p>
	<p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_92b.html#X13.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X13.01.01</a></b> A virgin of 14 years is
allowed to have jurisdiction over her own body.</p>
<p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_92b.html#X13.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X13.02.01</a></b> A boy is under his
father's jurisdiction until he is 15
winters old; after that he is allowed to become a monk if he wishes.  A virgin girl, until she is
13 or 14 winters old, is in the jurisdiction of her parents.  After (that) age her father is allowed
to give her in marriage with her consent.</p>
<p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_93a.html#X13.03.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X13.03.01</a></b> A father, if he is
compelled by great necessity, may give his son into slavery up to the time he is 6 winters old; after that he cannot give him without the
son's consent. </p>
<p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_93b.html#X15.01.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X15.01.01</a></b> If a mother kills her child, she is to fast 15 winters without ceasing except on Sunday. </p>
<p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_93a.html#X15.01.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X15.01.02</a></b> If she is needy, she is to fast 7 winters.</p>
<p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_94a.html#X15.06.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X15.06.01</a></b> The same fasting period (for masturbation: see X15.05.01) applies to a widow and a girl; a greater (fasting peiod) applies to a woman who has a husband if she desires fornication.</p>
<p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_94a.html#X16.02.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X16.02.01</a></b> 	If a woman sets her daughter on a rooftop or in an oven to cure (her: MS "men") of a fever, she is to fast 7 winters.</p>

<p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_95b.html#X17.10.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X17.10.01</a></b> If a man kills his father or mother or sister or brother or his son, it is in the bishop's judgment; some wish (it to be) that he repent in a foreign land for 10 winters.
</p>
<p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_97b.html#X21.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X21.04.01</a></b> Three Masses for dead laymen are celebrated each year,
	   on the third day, the ninth day, and the thirteenth day, for Christ rose from the dead on the third day
	   and in the ninth hour he gave up his spirit, and the children of Israel mourned Moses for thirty
	   days.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_98b.html#X23.04.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X23.04.01</a></b> Whoever eats the scabs of his body or worms, or drinks
	   urine or eats feces, if he is a child or a young man, let him be flogged; if it is an adult man, he is to
	   fast one year or the three fasting periods; either (punishment) is under the bishop's hand. </p>


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	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_100b.html#X26.12.01" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.12.01</a></b> if a widow commits fornication, she is to repent for one
	   year and the Ember days of the year;</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="JUNIUS_100b.html#X26.12.02" Title="Goes to the Junius manuscript">X26.12.02</a></b> and if she then has a child, she is to do penance for two
	   years fully and for another two less severely.</p>
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	   <b><a href="BX8558_148v.html#B66.04.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B66.04.01</a></b> One may give one child to the monastery even though one has promised another (child), for it is better that one fulfill that promise. </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_148v.html#B66.05.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B66.05.02</a></b> If a woman effects a rejection (an abortion)
	   of her child before the child is living, the same measures are judged (as in 66.05.01).  And after
	   that, that is, after 40 nights from the seed's reception, she is to be accused as a man-murderer and
	   must fast for three years every Wednesday	 and Friday and the three fasting periods.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_149r.html#B66.06.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B66.06.01</a></b> If a layman press down on and kill his own
	   child, he must fast one year on bread and water and for two years forgo meat and ale and keep himself from his wife for as long as he does penance.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_149r.html#B69.02.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B69.02.01</a></b> If anyone fornicates with his mother, he must fast for 15 years and never change that except on Sunday alone.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_150r.html#B74.01.05" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B74.01.05</a></b> If he is a boy (who fornicates with another male), for the first offense, 2 years, and if he does it again, he must fast for 4 years.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_150r.html#B75.01.05" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B75.01.05</a></b> Boys who fornicate between themselves, it is judged that they are whipped.</p>
	   	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_150r.html#B75.05.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B75.05.01</a></b> If a brother fornicates with his natural brother through the mingling of their bodies, he must fast for 15 winters without meat.</p>
	   	   <p>
		   <b><a href="BX8558_150r.html#B75.06.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B75.06.01</a></b> If a mother fornicates with her little son ("on hire"?), she must not taste meat for 3 years and fast 1 day in the week up to eventide.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_151v.html#B77.02.04" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.02.04</a></b> If a  monk or a nun begets a child, he or she
	   must do penance for 7 years.</p>
<p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_152r.html#B77.02.08" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.02.08</a></b> If a boy does it (ejaculate between the thighs), he is to fast for 20 days or one whips him. If he does it with a man in orders, he is to fast the 3 forty-day periods or all year.</p>


	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_152v.html#B77.04.12" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.04.12</a></b>  If a woman kills her child through murder
	   (as a murderer), she must fast for 15 years and never change that except on Sunday.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_152v.html#B77.04.13" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.04.13</a></b> If a needy woman kills her child, it is said that
	   she must fast for 7 years.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_152v.html#B77.04.14" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.04.14</a></b> If a woman conceives a child and kills it while it is in her, she must fast for 1 year.
	   If she kills it after 40 days, she must do penance as the murderer.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_152v.html#B77.04.15" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.04.15</a></b> If the child dies at 3 years of age without
	   baptism, the father and mother must fast for 3 years.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_152v.html#B77.04.16" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B77.04.16</a></b> Whoever kills her child without baptism
	   must fast for 10 years.</p>
<p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_152v.html#B78.01.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B78.01.02</a></b> If a woman sets her child on a roof or in an oven for the cure of a certain sickness (she) is to fast for 7 years.</p>
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<p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_153r.html#B78.05.01" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B78.05.01</a></b> A father may sell his son into servitude because of great necessity, up to the age of 7; after he may not do so unless he consent to it (unless his consent be to it).
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<p>
	   <b><a href="BX8558_153r.html#B78.05.02" Title="Goes to the Brussles manuscript">B78.05.02</a></b>
B78.05.02 A man of fourteen years of age may sell himself as a slave.</p>

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	   <b><a href="LAUD482_4b.html#Y41.15.02" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y41.15.02</a></b> Therefore ought any sinful man, if he is able,
	   receive the anointing and the last offices that pertain thereto.  For (concerning) each of those men who has
	   the last rites (offices), it is written that his soul as clean after his death as the soul of a child
	   who dies soon after baptism.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="LAUD482_5a.html#Y42.01.04" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.01.04</a></b> If anyone slay his child to death unwillingly
	   (accidentally), he it is to fast for 3 years, 1 on bread and water and 2 as his confessor instructs him.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#Y42.02.00" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.02.00</a></b> Concerning women who fornicate and then kill their children for fear </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="LAUD482_6a.html#Y42.02.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y42.02.01</a></b> If a woman destroys her child insider her with drink (a
	   potion?) or with other various things, or murders it after it comes forth, she is to fast 10
	   years, 3 on bread and water and 7 as her confessor mercifully instructs her.</p>
	   	   <p>
	   <b><a href="LAUD482_15a.html#Y44.09.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.09.01</a></b> If anyone deprive another of his daughter by force, he is to make amends to the relative and each of them is to fast 1 year on Wednesdays and Fridays on bread and water and on the other days partake of their food except for meat, and afterwards he is to take her in lawful marriage if the relative wishes it.</p>
   	   <p>
	    <b><a href="LAUD482_16a.html#Y44.16.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.16.01</a></b> The woman is assessed the same for that if she practices any
	   witchcraft for her child through a pit at a crossroads, for that is a very heathen practice.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="LAUD482_16a.html#Y44.17.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc. manuscript">Y44.17.01</a></b> If any woman deliberately kills her child in
	   herself with drink or murder it with anything, she is to fast for 7 years, 3 on bread and water and for 4 years,
	   (she is to fast) 3 days each week on bread and water and on the others enjoy her food without meat.</p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="LAUD482_16b.html#Y44.21.01" Title="Goes to the Laud Misc.  manuscript">Y44.21.01</a></b> If any Christian man sells his own children for any price,
	   or his nearest kin, he is to have no communion with Christian men until he has released him from
	   that servitude.  If he is not able to find him, he is to give as a great stipend on his behalf as he
	   previously received for him, and he is to release another from servitude and manumit him, and he
	   is to fast 7 weeks on bread and water.  And if  he does not have the property so that he can
	   release him, then he is to fast 28 weeks on bread and water.</p>
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	   <b><a href="CORP201_117.html#D54.08.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.08.01</a></b> If anyone smites his child to death unintentionally, he is to
	   fast for 5 years, 3 on bread and water as above. </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="CORP201_118.html#D54.10.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.10.01</a></b> If a woman kills her child while it is inside her, or after it
	   comes out, with drink or with diverse other things, she is to fast 10 years, three on bread and
	   water and seven as her priest mercifully teaches her, and repent it ever after. </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.39.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.39.01</a></b> If anyone suffocates a child in sleep so that it dies, he is to
	   fast three years, one on bread and water and, for two years, three days in the week, and if it came
	   about through drunkenness, he is to repent more deeply, as his priest instructs, and repent that
	   ever after. </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="CORP201_120.html#D54.40.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">54.40.01</a></b> If an unhealthy child dies a heathen, responsibility for that belongs to the
	   priest. He is to forfeit his rank and repent it earnestly; and if it came about through
	   the negligence friends, they are to fast for three years on bread and water and, for two years, three
	   days in the week and repent it ever after. </p>
	   <p>
	   <b><a href="CORP201_122.html#D55.13.01" Title="Goes to the Corpus 201 manuscript">55.13.01</a></b> Penances are imposed in various ways. A man may redeem
	   much with alms. He who has the means should raise a church to God's praise and if it is
	   possible for him, give the land for it. And let young men be drawn to it that may serve for him
	   and minister to God daily. And let him improve God's churched everywhere as it is
	   possible for him to do, and assist people's journeys with bridges over deep water and over foul
	   ways, and distribute earnestly what he has for thanksgiving to God,  as fully as is
	   possible for him. And let him help poor men earnestly, and widows and stepchildren and
	   foreigners. </p>
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